P. Kantor et Hv. Savitch, CAN POLITICIANS BARGAIN WITH BUSINESS - A THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVEPERSPECTIVE ON URBAN-DEVELOPMENT, Urban affairs review, 29(2), 1993, pp. 230-255
These authors examine the capability of local government to influence
economic development by formulating a framework that treats state-busi
ness relations as a bargaining process. This framework suggests that g
overnmental influence is tied to the distribution of bargaining advant
ages along three dimensions of a liberal-democratic political economy:
market conditions, popular-control systems, and public-intervention m
echanisms. The authors offer an explanation of how characteristics of
these dimensions strengthen or weaken city governments in dealing with
private enterprise; experiences of U.S. and Western European cities a
re drawn upon to illustrate this. They conclude that differences in ba
rgaining resources accounts for wide variation in local political cont
rol of business development.